Petroleum, oil and gas industries

A hard-luck Yankee fortune seeker.

A comprehensive overview of key geologic, geomechanical and engineering principles that govern the development of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs.

Presents advanced reservoir simulation methods used in the widely-used MRST open-source software for researchers, professionals, students.

The first systematic investigation of changes in oil market governance in the advanced industrial democracies over the last three decades.

Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the 'overheated' world: prosperous yet polluted; growing and developing yet always on the precipice of uncertainty.

Technical guide to the theory and practice of seismic data processing with MATLAB algorithms for advanced students, researchers and professionals.

A surge in demand for oil due to rapid economic growth and stagnation in domestic oil output has turned China into a net oil importer since 1993.

The untold story of how Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco teamed up with the CIA and Department of State to thwart the plans of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who almost managed to reshape the Middle East.

This book traces the development of the standard property rights over five kinds of natural resource - inland rivers, ocean fisheries, petroleum resources, gold and base metals and forest resources - from classical times through to the 19th century.

'Clear-eyed and illuminating.

Is the world running out of oil?

American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.

The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property.

Stock market booms are cause for celebration.

This book provides simplified models explaining flows in heterogeneous rocks, their physics and energy production processes, for researchers, energy industry professionals and graduate students.

Brings together widely scattered theoretical and laboratory rock physics relations critical for modelling and interpretation of geophysical data.

The perfect primer for both the layperson and the engineer, for the new hire and the old hand, describing, in easy-to-understand language, one of the biggest and most lucrative industries in the world.

Clayton Wheat WilliamsWest Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War, and avocational historianwas a risk taker, who both reflected and molded the history of his region.

Few issues in international affairs and energy security animate thinkers more than the classic topic of hegemony, and the case of the Persian Gulf presents particularly fertile ground for considering this concept.

Long recognized as the standard work on the topic, The Oil and Gas Lease in Canada discusses the legal document that determines the process by which a freehold mineral owner may grant oil companies the right to search for and produce minerals.

Since Tsarist times, Russia's leaders, rather than pursue economic growth for its own sake, have sought control over economic activity as a means to manage their own support base, respond to perceived security threats and to facilitate their wider geopolitical ambitions.

This book is dedicated to an in-depth statistical analysis and modelling of international oil markets before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with special attention placed on the oil exporting countries Russia and Iran.

For over eighty years the Arab region has been deriving massive wealth from its natural resources.

In 2006, world oil consumption will exceed one thousand barrels per second.

Out of sight, out of mind.

This book explores and explains fracture processes and fluid transport in the crust, with numerous worked examples, step-by-step calculations and practice exercises.

In this book, Alan Taylor reveals that the history of Dorset's oil starts in the 1850s with attempts to extract oil and gas from mined oil shale at Kimmeridge.

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family.

A variety of perspectives from leading economists provides fresh insight into how Arab countries may best exploit their oil revenues.

A detailed introduction to the study of crustal geomechanics, particularly the seismogenic crust, with exercises, solutions, and field-based datasets.

The petroleum and chemical industries contain a wide variety of corrosive environments, many of which are unique to these industries.

The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property.

Oil Revolution chronicles the rise and fall of anti-colonial oil elites who forged a new international culture of economic dissent from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Technical guide to the theory and practice of seismic data processing with MATLAB algorithms for advanced students, researchers and professionals.

This book presents a unified framework for assessing the value of potential data-gathering schemes, with a focus on the Earth sciences.

Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs"e;Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction.

This book provides a unified framework for subsurface imaging based upon asymptotic and trajectory-based methods, with online software applications.

The first and only comprehensive examination of current and future legal principles designed to govern oil and gas activity in Iraq.

Bestselling author Bethany McLean reveals the true story of frackings impacton Wall Street, the economy and geopoliticsThe technology of fracking in shale rockparticularly in the Permian Basin in Texashas transformed America into the worlds top producer of both oil and natural gas.

While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all.

The first and only comprehensive examination of current and future legal principles designed to govern oil and gas activity in Iraq.

'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya ChakraborttyTaking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain s oil-soaked past, present and future.

A comprehensive, stepwise introduction to the basic terminology, methods and theory of the physics of flow in porous media.

The American bombing of terrorist bases in Afghanistan under the protection of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement has brought the Taliban into sharp focus as the most radical and extreme Islamic movement in the world today.

The 1973 'Oil Shock' is considered a turning point in the history of the twentieth century.

Mining and Energy Law is a thorough examination of the contemporary mining and energy law in Australia.

Presents numerical methods for reservoir simulation, with efficient implementation and examples using widely-used online open-source code, for researchers, professionals and advanced students.

'Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZEA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021A candid examination of the life of North Sea oil riggers, and an explosive portrayal of masculinity, loneliness and female desire.

Is the earth's oil supply starting to run out, or is there far more oil than some experts believe?

The opening of the Caspian Sea basin to Western investment following the breakup of the Soviet Union produced a major contest for access to the region's vast energy reserves on the part of powers as close as Russia, Turkey, and Iran, and as far away as Japan and the United States.